Power Query Replace Values The Safer Way

2 lines of code can save you from having to refer directly to columns and therefore make you refresh more robust in the future.

Whether it's replacing nulls with zeros or any other replacement this technique can help

I refer to a blog article by Gil Raviv around avoiding directly referencing columns when detecting data types: datachant.com/2018/05/14/automatic-detection-of-column-types-in-powerquery/

Content

00:00 Intro
00:19 The Scenario
01:00 How we do it
03:25 Table.ColumnNames
03:40 Editing Table.ReplaceValues
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